Protein SYCP2 provides a link between transverse filaments and lateral elements of mammalian synaptonemal complexes

Chromosoma

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 259-267

  Winkel, Karoline ^a   Alsheimer, Manfred ^a   Öllinger, Rupert ^a   Benavente, Ricardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX PROTEIN 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL STRAIN COS7; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MAMMAL; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM; YEAST;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COS CELLS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; MALE; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; RATS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

MAMMALIA; SYNAPSIS;

EID: 62549149412     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: 14320886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00412-008-0194-0     Document Type: Article

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